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BNC#9 | The AI reckoning: Stafford Masie says jobs, healthcare & banking are all about to transform
Your phone tells you which menu items will wreck your afternoon before you've ordered. Your investment portfolio is run by an agent that never sleeps. And the loyalty programme you've belonged to for years? It might not survive contact with your own smartwatch. At BNC#9, former Google South Africa boss…
BN Daybreak: DA's R4bn probe; Masie on AI healthcare; Summerton on serial acquirers; US Markets
In today's episode, political commentator Solly Moeng unpacks the R4 billion Reserve Bank investigation involving DA finance spokesperson Mark Burke's former company. Additionally, Milkwood Capital's Rhys Summerton reveals the essential traits of successful serial acquirers, and former Google SA boss Stafford Masie warns that AI will disrupt traditional health models…
BNC#9 | John Endres: IRR polling data shows South Africans all want the same thing. Growth.
The ANC's national support has slipped to a new low. Almost a million South Africans have left the country in a generation. And yet the IRR's John Endres reckons South Africa has a better shot at real reform than Britain does. At BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Endres lays out new…
Solly Moeng: Burke bombshell, Kallie and Jacinta cosy up, Fadiel’s fate, Matlala’s murky world…
The once carefully curated moral image of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is showing more cracks. In their weekly chat, Chris Steyn and political commentator Solly Moeng discuss the R4-billion South African Reserve Bank (SARB) investigation into the company founded by DA Finance spokesperson Dr Mark Burke, and the pro bono…
BNC#9 | Wayne Duvenage: Over R200bn in bad govt deals, undone: Inside OUTA's war on waste
Twelve years ago Wayne Duvenage quit as CEO of Avis to fight a toll fee he believed was unjust. Government has since written off R43 billion in e-toll debt. A separate R200 billion power ship deal is dead too. Now, at BNC#9, the OUTA chief executive explains how a small…
BN Daybreak: Duvenage calls for citizen oversight; Endres on ANC voter decline; Wall Street slump
In this episode of BizNews Daybreak, we cover OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage’s call at BNC#9 for civilian-led accountability and AI to combat corruption, alongside IRR CEO John Endres's polling data showing ANC support dropping below 50% across key demographics. Reuters details Wall Street's slip driven by soaring bond yields and…
BNC#9 | Fired for pitching an 'unlistable' idea, Afrimat CEO v Heerden built a R10bn company anyway
Fired from a small quarrying company in 2005 for pitching an idea a lawyer called "unlistable," Andries van Heerden went and built it anyway. Twenty years on, that idea is Afrimat: a R10 billion JSE-listed miner spanning iron ore, manganese, anthracite, rare earths and now cement, after last year's Lafarge…
BNC#9 | Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi: Turning around an SA giant through Trump, tariffs and turmoil
He started out as a bursary student from a village with no electricity or running water. Now Simon Baloyi runs one of South Africa's biggest industrial employers. In his first full year as CEO (2024) he turned a loss of nearly R70 a share into double-digit profit. Baloyi's BNC#9 keynote…
BN Daybreak: US-SA trade ultimatum; Baloyi on Sasol's profit pivot; Knysna's crisis; Lafarge cleanup
Wall Street dipped as investors braced for retail earnings from Home Depot, TJX and Walmart. In Knysna, Ron Weissenberg says a R70-80 million provincial intervention has barely dented entrenched corruption despite Hawks investigations. From BNC#9, Theo de Jager detail 14 Washington meetings pushing the US to link trade to farm-murder…
BNC#9 | '3 Amigos': Mulder, Papenfus, de Jager on a strained GNU, US-SA relations, FMD crisis + more
They've been dubbed 'the Three Amigos', and a year on from their first appearance as a trio at BNIC#2 in Hermanus, Dr Corné Mulder, Dr Theo de Jager and Gerhard Papenfus are back with an inside account of the Washington meeting that could reshape South Africa's relationship with the United…
Why king maker coalitions and municipal interventions fail…
With The Hawks investigating corruption at Knysna Municipality amid a failing intervention, Ron Weissenberg of The Accountability Group (TAG) tells Chris Steyn why interventions and money are not the solution. “They tend to paper over the problems and they address… emergencies on a short-term basis. However, when the money ends…
BNC#9 | Dean Macpherson: SA has a trillion rand for infrastructure, but it can't spend it (yet)
South Africa has budgeted a trillion rand for infrastructure over the next three years. It's spending less than it did twelve months ago. Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson lays out why: a tender system that awards roughly one in six bids, a construction mafia that until recently shut…
BN Daybreak: Malema WhatsApp claims; Mulder on GNU capture; Construction mafia arrests surge
Back from BNC#9 in the Drakensberg, Daybreak opens with Safe Citizen's Jonathan Deal on the Madlanga Commission, where WhatsApp chats allegedly link Julius Malema to Major-General Feroz Khan and tobacco businessman Mohammadh Sayed. Malema calls it ordinary parliamentary oversight. At the conference, FF+ leader Corné Mulder warns GNU parties risk…
The NdB Sunday Show: Malema’s WhatsApps, Mchunu’s R700 000 forklifts, Matlala’s paper trail...
In the latest edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and Safe Citizen Founder Jonathan Deal take a deep dive into the latest testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry after 159 days of testimony. “I think that we could say that this week the Madlanga Commission stopped being…
BNC#9 | Dr Iraj Abedian: SA's 80-year bond with Iran, and why America's Middle East era is ending
Reza Shah of Iran died in exile in a house in Johannesburg in 1944. Eighty-two years later, an Iranian-born South African economist stood up at BNC#9 to explain why that strange, half-forgotten history still shapes how Pretoria thinks about Tehran, and why the war now raging between Iran, Israel and…
BN Daybreak: Dawie Roodt slams ANC; Ian Cameron on SAPS; Wall Street highs; OpenAI and Anthropic
Today on BizNews Daybreak, Wall Street celebrates record highs while OpenAI and Anthropic eyes a massive IPO. Locally, Dawie Roodt blames ANC ideology for South Africa's economic woes, and Ian Cameron exposes severe dysfunction and backlogs within SAPS. On the global front, Dr. Iraj Abedian analyses America’s retreat from the…
BNC#9 | Dawie Roodt: "Incompetent" ANC is the "most destructive force South Africa has ever seen"
Dawie Roodt says South Africa's taxpayers are being squeezed harder than ever, and he has the fresh numbers to prove it. In this BNC#9 keynote, the Efficient Group chief economist walks from 300,000 years of human history to the latest Reserve Bank bulletin to make one argument: the state is…
BNC#9 | Ian Cameron: "Fire, fire, fire more": Five-point plan to fix SAPS, and how long it will take
Half of South Africa's police stations don't answer their own phones. There's a DNA backlog running past 300,000 cases, sitting behind rapists who are still walking free. And SAPS spends R102-billion a year on salaries for a leadership structure of 722 generals and brigadiers. Ian Cameron, chair of Parliament's Portfolio…
BNC#9 | Rob Hersov: Why mafia, gangsters and tenderpreneurs make SA so difficult to turn around
Rob Hersov became a household name in South African business circles for one speech and two words. Four years on, he's back on the BizNews stage with a harder, more complicated message: the country is not fixed, the ANC is not gone, and the crisis is deeper than most people…
BN Daybreak: Mashele on the ANC’s terminal decline; Hersov on SA’s investability; Nvidia $500B plan
In today's BizNews Daybreak, Prince Mashele predicts the ANC's terminal decline by 2034, while Rob Hersov warns South Africa is uninvestable due to a massive illicit economy. Globally, subdued US inflation eases Fed pressure, and Nvidia unveils a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan. Plus, we hear Bernard Mostert's inside story…